AUGUSTINIAN BULLETIN BOARD - May 2000
Having raised up how own flesh
God will also raise up yours
Christ rose again. What, in him, rose again? The Word was made flesh, and dwelt among us. The Word took to himself what he was not, but never lost what he was. So he remained the Word. What rose again. The Word. Why did he fall? In order to rise again. Why did the Word die? In order to come to life again. But we are saying that he died in the flesh which he took, not in the divinity in which he remained. So in the element in which Christ rose gain, he did himself wrong, while providing a model for you; for him to rise again, you see, was a humiliation, it was a wrong. Go back to the Word, go back to In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God, and consider what it means for that one to rise again; because having raised up his own flesh, he will also raise up yours. The reason, you see, he wished his own to rise again, was to preserve you from failing to believe that yours would rise again.
Sermon 242A, 1
- Augustinian Friends (Sydney) - pilgrimage to Mary MacKillop
Centre, Mount St North Sydney - 21 May beginning at 9.30 am.
Mass at 10.00 am, discussion and guided tour of the museum finishing
at 4.00 pm. Cost: $20.00 including lunch. Non members are also welcome.
For more information, please contact Margaret Burke 9452 1179, Sue
Mackey 9982 6357 or Anne Halloway 9949 1758.
- "Life with Augustine"...a course in his spirit and guidance
for daily living. This excellent programme compiled by Edmond Maher
is a self study adult education programme which provides a means by
which participants can come to know more about Augustine, the times
in which he lived, the Scriptures that taught him, the life inspired
by him and its relevance to us today.
Cost: Course guidebook: $25.00
The Confessions $30.00
Enquiries to: "Life with Augustine"
PO Box 679
Brookvale NSW 2100 - In early May Fr Jim Bolton OSA presently at St Clair transfers to Kyabram. Fr Jim had previously served there (1983 to 1986). We wish him well on his new appointment.
- Welcome to Fr Raymund Alcayaga OSA from the Cebu Province
(Philippines) who arrives in Australia later this month. Fr Raymund
is here to undertake further theological studies at Australian Catholic
University, Strathfield (Sydney). While in Australia (two years) he
is appointed to the St Clair community and will be assisting in the
parish.
- Congratulations to Fr Robert Greenup OSA (Pastor, Mareeba) on his obtaining a Graduate Diploma in Aboriginal Studies from the University of South Australia.
- The Augustinians in Australia recently received news of the death in the United States of Fr Alfred Natali OSA on 14th December last year. Fr Natali worked in Australia from 1945 to 1952. He firstly was assigned to the visitation of Italian families in various parts of the Cairns diocese. >From 1947 to 1952 he was the founding parish priest of Silkwood (south of Innisfail). In 1990 he revisited Australia thanks to the hospitality of Italian Catholic families of Far North Queensland. May he rest in God's peace.
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